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Marux posted:Not sure where in the thread they are at this point, but I saved these: That reminds me of the "I WANT TO BELIEVE" posters.
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Two Finger posted:I've seen that photo in one of my lectures... I believe it was hosed up on a testbed. I want to say hydrolocking did that, let me see if I can dig up the link. These stories are great. Want to gently caress up? Want to gently caress up BIG TIME? Become a Marine Diesel Mechanic!
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May 11, 2011 08:00
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Two Finger posted:Haha, why do you think I do it? I believe that's called "A Trail of Chaos" or something that had to be awesome to watch from safety.
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May 11, 2011 17:29
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Tindjin posted:I know they are huge but the kid in me wants that to be a R/C truck hauling around someone's honda engine.. Couldn't be a Honda, because that engine has TORQUE.
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May 12, 2011 03:37
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EightBit posted:These engines can be run off of the thick sludge left from oil distillation that noone else wants, which is cheaper than the cleaner fuel required for turbine engines. Bunker Oil 4 Lyfe. B4Ctom1 posted:Horrible Mechanical Failure.. Surprised that poo poo didn't burn. Rail Car Explosions Roseville, CA April 1973- A railroad accident draws the Navy's attention to the hazards caused by fires and sensitive munitions. A train loaded with bombs had just entered the yard in Roseville, CA, when a fire was observed in one of the boxcars. Before the fire department could react, a massive explosion demolished the boxcar and spread the fire. In the next few hours, 18 boxcars exploded in succession. There were no fatalities in this accident, but 48 people were injured and property damage totaled $24 Million. http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...=www.google.com
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Plus how much money do you think you save on castings and all of that good stuff to make flatheads.
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May 18, 2011 23:27
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Ridge_Runner_5 posted:Induced mechanical failure behind the wheel. She parked it here and left. Spike is a pretty powerful drink.
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May 28, 2011 22:59
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dietcokefiend posted:Is that thing fake from what I am seeing their on the inside shot? I don't think it's fake, which makes it even worse!
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May 29, 2011 03:09
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Motronic posted:It's a 35 question multiple choice test. If you can remember that you need to keep a bill of lading and MSDS with the truck at all times, that you need to put placards on all sides of the truck based on what's on the manifest, not put dangerous mixed loads right next to each other, and that you need to stop at RR crossings you're good to go. Not like we are to be handling it. You want really mindless WTF, it's completely legal to haul nothing but batteries in a trailer without placards. 45,000 pounds of batteries is fine without markings, 1000 pounds of batteries with anything else, it's a hazmat load.
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May 29, 2011 19:27
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Beast Pussy posted:yeah i turned it when i remounted it and it got better but all the wheels except one were terrible. all the tires had different DOT batch numbers so it wasn't a single bad run of them causing the problem. we showed the customer and explained it to him and he said he didnt care, just to balance them as best we could so he could leave. two others needed 3+ oz and one only needed 1.5 total so we put that on the LF and the bad one on the RR. Your lack of a poo poo, I mean shift, key has to be a failure of some means.
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Jun 4, 2011 06:58
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Spiffness posted:This was on Reddit with no real explanation other than '6 liter super duty drive shaft' and that it's the wiring harness of the truck it was on. Jonny 5 suicide gif
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http://youtu.be/HJA3J--g_yI Failures of all kinds.
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Geoj posted:Didn't the Mythbusters prove that while a cable snapping at high tension will leave a nasty bruise and potentially break some bones, it doesn't have the force necessary to split a body in half? http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/amusement-park-accident-severs-girls-feet/
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Motronic posted:Yeah...there's that too. It's an amazingly dangerous thing that that the military does routinely. It's pretty incredible. Yeah, they land loaded semi trucks on a moving road. Well, they used too when the F-14's flew. Still the loaded weights are more than my tare weight and I sure as gently caress don't want to fly my loving truck (again) and crash it onto a moving road. And they do this over and over and over...
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Feb 8, 2013 23:23
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Snowdens Secret posted:Worst smoketunes I've ever seen were in Utah. The Utah Valley is gorgeous but smoggy as heck; I couldn't figure out why until I drove around and saw all the lifted pickups blowing soot constantly. What is "Winter Inversions" for $800 Alec? Kinda surprised about the amount of smog coal rollers have and how many there seem to be. I don't see that many really.
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http://youtu.be/2u2Ds7xkbJ0 loving what?
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Geoj posted:RV owners probably view it as another "vehicle" to store, plate, register and insure and I'm sure there's a fractional improvement on fuel economy by just towing the vehicle rather than towing the vehicle on a trailer. I used to drive more than anyone other than OTR truckers and vehicles being flat-towed behind RVs was far, far more common than being tow-dollied or on a flatbed trailer. The main thing you are all leaving off is space size and cost. Most places won't let you completely take up as much space as you want. You have a 40 foot RV, a trailer that adds x amount of feet, then your tote. Most places brag about 50amp 50 foot pull through.
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http://youtu.be/_JQdxC63vCQ Holy poo poo.
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Dradien posted:Saw this while looking at some mining vehicle carnage. Makes me cringe. I thought those big loving tires didn't have that much air in them PSI wise. I know I run high PSI in my truck, but I thought those only ran like 45 PSI or so. Still that is a lot of air in those tires under pressure. And would a .308 be able to go through those tires? Some of those fuckers have like half a god damned foot of rubber on them.
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Feb 21, 2013 23:00
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PainterofCrap posted:Yay! My new blower motor for my e320 showed up today! DISCO IS NOT DEAD! http://youtu.be/EtaZ48fERfc
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hosed if I know the psi poo poo, but Goodyear's 52/80-57 tire holds 946 gallons of water at a 75% fill....
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mutt2jeff posted:I imagine they actually have quite a bit of pressure in them, they need it to carry 10's of tons of rocks and dirt. But they also don't drive fast. Maybe I should say at X weight you are limited to Y speed kinda deal.
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Feb 22, 2013 01:15
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DefaultPeanut posted:Loaded rock trucks hum along pretty good 40k. We kept the tires around 70 psi for the Volvos 30's we run, bigger machines with heavier loads run them upwards of 110 psi. When we had to run them to another site a few km down paved roads, we set them for 85 psi and were able to keep them fairly stable at 70km/h. I was thinking more along the lines of Liebherrs, but yeah, those pressures are higher than I was thinking.
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Opensourcepirate posted:If those tires are pressured to anything close to (or more than) a car tire, that is terrifying. I just remembered I was at a tire place picking up tires and they had some brand new "big" tires, bigger than for a semi, but not those mine truck loving huge ones, that for some reason were destroyed or unable to be sold, so they cut out huge chunks in the sidewalls to render them no good for anything other than yard art. And I'm not kidding, the sidewalls looked half a foot thick. I sure as gently caress wouldn't want to be around one of those doing what that picture shows them doing. But I sure as gently caress would love to watch the video of them popping that tire with an anti-tank rifle.
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Motronic posted:Somebody dumped stop leak in it. I was going to say, looks like 5 bottles of stop leak cured the leak issue.
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Mar 1, 2013 01:38
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That Japanese Death Cage scared me. It's like they added more metal to the car so you'll really need the jaws of life to get what's left of your corpse after the cage crushes down through the cute little cat boxes they have it mounted to. Also, that camshaft had to make one hellofa racket for awhile to have that much metal hosed up.
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EightBit posted:Don't rear-end a trailer That's what you get for getting outbraked by a semi.
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Or just being parked on the shoulder! http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top_stories/story/Arizona-pair-killed-after-rear-ending-semi-in-Utah/DRSj0VprZkC3bFpiIt9LZA.cspx Trigger Warning: SPLAT
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PainterofCrap posted:That's what those goddamned bars were mandated for in the first place...I remember when that requirement came in. Now they don't do poo poo? quote:....states that a manufacturer owes a duty to design a vehicle reasonably safe for the occupants, but does not owe a duty to those that collide with the vehicle. Been quite a few cases like that, I do wonder if this is a case against split speed limits though.
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Mar 8, 2013 02:40
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You Am I posted:The anti-submerge bars on the trailers in the US look pretty crap. The ones in Australia have angled re-enforcements so they just don't collapse under like in that video. Look at the Great Dane website: http://www.greatdanetrailers.com/champion-cp Are they like those?
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Crustashio posted:The lovely US one would at least be marginally better if the material thickness was enough to prevent tearing. Would still bend with that crummy gusseting but from the underneath camera you can see the whole bar is just tearing off the mounts. It doesn't make sense though, as we have all our trailers Canadian specc'd.
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one does a really good job, it just needs the main support beams at the edges of the trailer. Possibly a triple beam setup to maintain center strength.
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NoWake posted:The 'High Ride' air solenoid is stuck open on my bus, the road mechanic couldn't change it out today so it's going to the shop tomorrow. Driving empty feels like I'm driving a bouncy castle, and driving loaded pisses off my passengers. I've apologized for the rough ride hundred times, but at least the roads here in central Florida are nice and flat. HAHAHAHAHAHA, oh my loving god that bus is making me laugh too hard. I can not believe you are driving it with people on board.
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Godholio posted:Hard? No. But it costs more money than they have to spend to meet the minimum requirement. And adds to the aero drag.
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Geirskogul posted:Would it, though, with those new deflectors I'm seeing on trucks? The ones that look like an "A" from the top down, with the point in the middle of the front axle and the tails as wide as the rear of the box? The ones I see look like this, but with the front of it closer together or joined into a point. There is going to be a lot of space from the end of the aeromod to the end of the trailer. And don't forget the tandem slides.
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Voltage posted:Amazingly relavent article, guy crashes his Z06 into the back of a semi: http://jalopnik.com/this-corvette-crash-should-have-severed-this-driver-s-h-451603754 He is lucky as gently caress he hit a straight truck, not a semi trailer. It came to me last night why they aren't adding more poo poo to the DOT bar, when your tandems are all the way to the rear end end, you'll hit poo poo like brake chambers and air ride poo poo back there.
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Shifty Pony posted:Someone wrecked into a car dealership here, managing to hit 18 new Hyundai cars: http://youtu.be/Cxqgn_zxDKE I think I've seen this before.....
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Geirskogul posted:Welp, Satan has claimed your car. Tough luck, buddy. Not so fast! "Acts of God" aren't covered, but that doesn't let the lord of the underworld off the hook!
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kastein posted:I think that goes here but goddamn! That's some uh... skilled framing work. Since I don't wander over to that forum much, I'm glad it popped up here. It makes me feel better about myself, in a way that I never knew possible.
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Sagebrush posted:Not quite always. One of my favorite videos: You know those fuckers where sitting around pulling insane ideas outta their asses to try. Let's hit it with a truck! gently caress that, a train! No, a rocket powered train! ON FIRE! 
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Rujo King posted:Those flasks are absolutely insanely well-engineered. You could stand alongside a truck loaded up with one chock full of transuranic waste and you'd pick up less radioactivity than if you stood on a hilltop for an hour and begged cosmic rays to hit you. IIRC the American one was also designed to last 10,000 years buried about 600 meters beneath a desert, deep within a layer of salt that would eventually grow back around it and seal it in permanently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfrog_County,_Nevada While not completely on topic, I found this pretty neat.
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